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Don't doubt it, God thinks you are significant

I recently read the quote of a paragraph out of the children’s book, Tallest of the Smalls. See if this sounds familiar to you... “Perhaps you don’t know about Stiltsville, the village, so strange but so true...

I recently read the quote of a paragraph out of the children’s book, Tallest of the Smalls. See if this sounds familiar to you... “Perhaps you don’t know about Stiltsville, the village, so strange but so true... For each evening at six they meet in the circle for the purpose of sticks, tall stilts upon which a Stiltvillian can strut and be lifted above the less and the least, the Tribe of Too Smalls, the not cools who want to be tall - but can’t, because in the giving of sticks, their name was not called. They didn’t get picked.”

As you read this, do past experiences from your own childhood come to mind? Times when you were perhaps the last to be chosen for a sports team at school. We can also have similar experiences in one circumstance or another as adults.

In such experiences, where we seem to be left out, we end up facing one of our worst fears... the fear of appearing insignificant. We want to make a difference, leave our mark in this life, but after not qualifying in the eyes of someone else, we begin to think to ourselves, “why should I try? I’m not worth much in the grand scheme of things.”

When we begin to think like this, do you know what we’re doing? We’re disagreeing with God, the one who gave His personal attention to how we were created, how we are wired.

Sometimes the opinions other people have of us seems so strong, but we need to remember that when all is said and done, what makes us significant is that we are God’s idea.

The Bible tells us that we are God’s work of art, we are His masterpiece. God sees you and loves the you He sees. David in Psalm 139:14 said, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Others may not see you as significant, but God does. In fact, you are so significant to Him that He took the time to design a purpose, a plan for your life that will bring out the full potential that is you.

And because this is true, we need to make the choice to believe that to God you are not an accident, you are not an incident, but rather God’s gift to the world.

If you were a painting you would find God’s signature in the bottom corner.

What makes us significant in life is not what we do or what we can accomplish or whether others choose us for their team or not. What makes us significant is who we really belong to... God Himself.

Now, I know this can all sound like encouraging news, but when our lives rub up against a world that tells us we’re not all that significant, it’s easy for this good news to get lost in the “insignificant messages” others say with their words, actions and reactions. And so, you and I need to make a choice.

We can either take to heart the world’s message that we are insignificant in their eyes or we can take to heart the message of the One who created us, that we are full of significance.

So full of significance that God was willing to send His only Son, Jesus, to die for our sins and failures. He rose from the dead so that we might have the opportunity to know God personally and experience heaven.

You see, when we fear that we’re insignificant, what that fear does is corrode our confidence in the fact that God is good.

That somehow God closed His eyes and looked the other direction after he made us. But fear never does much good. It never gives us joy. It never helps the sick to get better. We need to instead focus on that one statement Jesus made more than any other... “Don’t be afraid.”

When people by their words and actions try to tell us that we’re insignificant, we don’t have to let that fear fill our hearts.

You don’t have to invite it in. Instead, open your heart to the One who loves you and says that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

This column was submitted by the Tri - Community Baptist Church in Beiseker.

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